Religion

Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms, 1521. This was an assembly of the Holy Roman Empire called by King Charles V in Heylshof Garden, Worms, to address Martin Luther and the effects of the Protestant Reformation. (Photo by The Print Collector via Getty Images)

What was the Reformation?

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General Early Modern

History Traveller, part 2: St Basil’s Cathedral, Moscow

Swastika on a lotus background

Second World War

Why did Hitler choose the swastika, and how did a Sanskrit symbol become a Nazi emblem?

c1190 A scene from the Third Crusade depicting the surrender of Acre to the armies of King Richard I of England and Philippe Auguste of France. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Your top questions about the crusades – answered

First Crusade, Siege of Antioch, c1097,14th-century illustration (Photo by Getty Images)

Everything you ever wanted to know about the crusades, but were afraid to ask

The 1618 Defenestration of Prague

The 1618 Defenestration of Prague explained

Thousands of Muslims gather in India in 2019 to offer Eid prayers, marking end of holy month of Ramadan

General ancient history

A brief history of Ramadan

Cloisters at Fountains Abbey, North Yorkshire (Photo by Dreamstime)

Everything you ever wanted to know about the English Reformation, but were afraid to ask

Henry III during the Second Barons' War

Simon de Montfort and the barons’ crusade: why rebel lords waged holy war against Henry III

Picture of the Battle of Beziers

In a nutshell The Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade

A monk and his mistress

Monks behaving badly

An illumination depicts medieval women embroidering

Medieval misconceptions: 12 myths about life in the Middle Ages – busted

The Warsaw Ghetto, Poland, where hundreds of thousands of Jews were forced to live before they were sent to concentration camps as part of Adolf Hitler’s ‘final solution’. (Bettmann/Getty Images)

Second World War

The Jews who fought back: the story of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Julian of Norwich holds her famous book in a sculpture at the doors of Norwich Cathedral. (Photo by Creative Commons Wiki)

Julian of Norwich: Janina Ramirez hails ‘the female Chaucer’

Christ appearing to Mary Magdalene

Mary Magdalene: why do people want to believe she was a sinner and prostitute?